I used lightweight Linux to revive a Windows PC that Microsoft gave up on, and it's not Ubuntu

Windows 11 made a bold move with its system requirements and pushed a huge section of legacy hardware into the past. The lack of TPM chips, high baseline memory requirements, and other BIOS features like Secure Boot weren't available on hardware released a decade ago. Surely you can upgrade some elements like memory and storage, but Windows 11 requirements are way more complex than that.